Ethics and moral philosophy Books
The University of Chicago Press The Varnished Truth Truth Telling and Deceiving
Book SynopsisEveryone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and insightful book, David Nyberg exposes the tacit truth underneath our collective pretense and reveals that an occasional lie can be helpful, healthy, creative, and, in some situations, even downright moral. The Varnished Truth takes us beyond philosophical speculation and clinical analysis to give us a sense of what it really means to tell the truth. As Nyberg lays out the complexities involved in leading a morally decent life, he compels us to see the spectrum of alternatives to telling the truth and telling a clear-cut lie.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them
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The University of Chicago Press How Should We Live A Practical Approach to
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers of Kekes's impressive and prolific philosophical output of recent years will find many of his familiar virtues manifest in this latest offering. The writing is lucid, careful, tenacious, and always accessible, and if there is a certain dryness of tone, the author endeavors to temper this by providing schematic 'real life' examples (the School Teacher, the Father, the Nurse, the Civil Servant, the Betrayed Woman) in an attempt to make his arguments more vivid. The book's overall message is a kind of hymn to ground floor, practical reason, which allows us to 'live reasonably in the context of civilized societies in a plurality of ways.'" --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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The University of Chicago Press Uncountable
Book SynopsisRanging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity.Trade Review"Ricardo and David Nirenberg, father and son scholars of mathematics and history, have teamed up in a breathtaking voyage examining the foundations and limits of knowledge in western thought. Not content with secondary sources, they have translated from the literature in their original languages: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. In particular, they target mathematics and the natural sciences, and the way the concepts of sameness and differences affect our understanding of the natural world. But in the process, the authors touch upon many other facets of human endeavor, all named after their Greek roots: poetry, philosophy, psychology, economy. Along this wildly entertaining journey, we meet dozens of erudite thinkers, scientists, and writers such as Anaximander, Al-Farabi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Reiner Maria Rilke. The book arrives just in time to give us ammunition as attempts are being made to put truth itself into the supercollider. It is a source of inspiration and comfort to learn how the far-flung ideas about numbers, our existence, and the world we live in have been debated in the past."--Joachim Frank, Columbia University, Nobel Prize in ChemistryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Playing with Pebbles 1 World War Crisis 2 The Greeks: A Protohistory of Theory 3 Plato, Aristotle, and the Future of Western Thought 4 Monotheism’s Math Problem 5 From Descartes to Kant: An Outrageously Succinct History of Philosophy 6 What Numbers Need: Or, When Does 2 + 2 = 4? 7 Physics (and Poetry): Willing Sameness and Difference 8 Axioms of Desire: Economics and the Social Sciences 9 Killing Time 10 Ethical Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index of Names
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The University of Chicago Press Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bernstein (New School for Social Research) presents a strong case for moving ethical inquiry in a new direction... Bernstein's presentation is clear, original, and persuasive... Highly recommended." -- L. J. Alderink * Choice *"Bernstein’s moral instincts strike as sound, and his novel ideas pertaining to embodiment, trust, and love — and their relation to dignity — strike as insightful contributions to moral psychology." -- Craig Duncan * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *“A complex and enigmatic discussion of torture and rape.” * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart One : History, Phenomenology, and Moral Analysis One / Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of Law I. Introduction II. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable Bodies III. Torture and the Rule of Law: Beccaria IV. The Beccaria Thesis V. Forgetting Beccaria Two / On Being Tortured I. Introduction II. Pain: Certainty and Separateness III. Améry’s Torture IV. Pain’s Aversiveness V. Pain: Feeling or Reason? VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the Other VII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the World Three / The Harm of Rape, The Harm of Torture I. Introduction: Rape and/as Torture II. Moral Injury as Appearance III. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily Persons IV. On Being Raped V. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Rape VI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: TorturePart Two : Constructing Moral Dignity Four / To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be Recognized I. Introduction II. To Be Is to Be Recognized III. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-Consciousness IV. Being and Having a Body V. From Life to Recognition Five / Trust as Mutual Recognition I. Introduction II. The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of Trust III. Trust’s Priority over Reason IV. Trust in a Developmental Setting V. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic Worth Six / “My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity” I. Why Dignity? II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the Unlovable III. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to Devastation IV. Dignity and the Human Form V. The Body without Dignity VI. My Body: Voluntary and Involuntary VII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and Dignity Concluding Remarks : On Moral Alienation I. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian Fantasies II. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of Rape Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Calling of Education The Academic Ethic and
Book SynopsisFeaturing the writing of Edward Shils on the topic of education, this text articulates the ethical demands of the academic profession, directing attention to the integration of teaching and research. Other pieces focus on perennial issues in higher learning, such as the meaning of academic freedom.Table of ContentsForeword by Joseph Epstein Introduction by Steven Grosby The Academic Ethic The Criteria of Academic Appointment Do We Still Need Academic Freedom? The Eighth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities: "Render unto Caesar..." -Government, Society, and the Universities in Their Reciprocal Rights and Duties The Idea of the University: Obstacles and Opportunities in Contemporary Societies The Modern University and Liberal Democracy Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of
Book SynopsisThe question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the true facts of the matter lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blamefar from being based on an objective process of factual discoveryare instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts.
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The University of Chicago Press Erring A Postmodern Atheology
Book SynopsisErring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extendsand goes well beyondpioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed.G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and LiteratureMany have felt the need for a study which would explicate in coherent and accessible fashion the principal tenets of deconstruction, with particular attention to their theological implications. This need the author has addressed in a most impressive manner. The book's effect upon contemporary discussion is apt to be, and deserves to be, far-reaching.Walter Lowe, Journal of Religion
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The University of Chicago Press Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate
Book SynopsisDr. Tillich shows here that in spite of the contrast between philosophical and biblical language, it is neither necessary nor possible to separate them from each other. On the contrary, all the symbols used in biblical religion drive inescapably toward the philosophical quest for being. An important statement of a great theologian's position, this book presents an eloquent plea for the essential function of philosophy in religious thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Unbecoming Persons
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The University of Chicago Press How to Read Hegel Now
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The University of Chicago Press Moralizing Technology
Book SynopsisA study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, it locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines.Trade Review"Peter-Paul Verbeek's insightful analysis invites us to attend more carefully to the ways we practice our moralities, not only with other people and nature but also among and through the artifacts that have become our children, siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, with all the love-hate relationships typical of family life." (Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines)"
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The University of Chicago Press Public and Private in Thought and Practice
Book SynopsisThese essays, by contributors from fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, seek to illuminate the significance of the public/private distinction for an increasingly wide range of debates.
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The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering History Heterology the
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Abbreviations 1: Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics The Historian's Promise Historical Truth and the End of Representation The Necessity of Naming That Which Cannot Be Named: The Cataclysm Historical Narrative History as Science: L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse Factuality Revisited: Lies, Fiction, Ficciones Ficciones and History: Foucault 2: Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant The Nihil and Analogy Heteronomy's Rule The Ends of History The Aesthetic and the Cataclysm 3: The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality Runaway Images The Historian and the Camera: Still Photography The Co-optation of the Look History as Archive of the Moving Image The French Revolution in Narrative and Film Images and Information 4: Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance The Specular Absolute and Release from the Object Plenum and Void Terror and Cataclysm 5: Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler Voyages in Time Time's Duality: From Hegel to Nietzsche and Back McTaggart's Paradox: Tensed and Tenseless Time The Speech and Silence of Heterology 6: Re-membering the Past The Tablet and the Aviary "That This Too Too Solid Flesh Would Melt" From "Trace" to Shining Trace Flickering Memories: Images and Signs La Cage aux Folles: From Tablet to Aviary and Back The Mind Is a Bone: Skull, Brains, and Memory Matter Matters: Brain States and Mental Acts Differance Is in the Neurons Ownerless Memories: Artificial Life and Biological Computers 7: The Gift of Community Unsaying Rational Community: Autochthony and Desire Humanity's Essence Is Production Exteriority and Community The Gift of the Future The Gift of Hope Notes Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.
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The University of Chicago Press Reasons of Conscience
Book SynopsisHow could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? This title considers bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of twenty-first century, highlighting how the country's ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today.Trade Review"Without a doubt, this is the finest ethnography of German political life and the inner workings of the German state that I have read - it is brilliantly attentive both to the cultural and historical legacies that shape German politics as well as to the realpolitik and complex alliances of its parliamentary statecraft." (Dominic Boyer, Rice University)"
£31.35
McGill-Queen's University Press Net Privacy How We Can Be Free in an Age of
Book SynopsisThe internet is unprecedented and ubiquitous. Everyone can watch everyone and be watched back, now or later, again and again. What does this mean for privacy?Trade Review"Molitorisz has a mastery of this sprawling and complex topic and has succeeded in navigating the tricky balance between scholarly rigour and accessibility. A well-written, lively, and persuasive book." Colin Bennett, University of Victoria
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McGill-Queen's University Press Language Ethics
Book SynopsisLanguage is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics. Studies are predominantly carried out in isolated disciplinary silos - notably linguistics, philosophy, political science, public administration, and education. This volume proposes a new vision for understanding the political ethics of language, particularly in linguistically diverse societies, and it establishes the necessary common framework for this field of inquiry: language ethics. Through creative and constructive thinking, Language Ethics considers how to advance our understanding of the human commonalities of moral and linguistic capacities and the challenge of linguistic difference and societal interdependence. The book embraces the longstanding centrality of language to moral reasoning and reinterprets it in a manner that draws on the social and political life of real-world intTrade Review"Drawing on both normative principles and empirical findings, the various essays in this volume examine the centrality of language to issues of social justice, exploring its role in establishing social equality, status, and solidarity, as well as how individual and group identity and dignity seek verbal expression. Also explored are the expressive and communicative aspects of language as shown through social, economic, and political practices and structures. The essays are rigorous, thorough, and demanding, while also being fair and fecund. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." Choice
£27.08
Columbia University Press Aids Ethics A Users Guide
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. It addresses controversial issues related to the tension between civil rights and public health, mandatory HIV testing, human subjects research, and others. It provides guidelines to health care and human service professionals, policy makers, scholars, and others.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors 1. AIDS: The Relevance of Ethics, by Frederic G. Reamer 2. AIDS, Public Health, and Civil Liberties: Consensus and Conflict in Policy, by Ronald Bayer 3. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing, by James F. Childress 4. AIDS and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research, by Carol Levine 5. AIDS and the Crisis of Health Insurance, by Gerald M. Oppenheimer and Robert A. Padgug 6. Ethical Issues in AIDS Education, by Nora Kizer Bell 7. Ethics and Militant AIDS Activism, by Courtney S. Campbell 8. AIDS and the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Robert J. Levine 9. AIDS and the Obligations of Health Care Professionals, by Abigail Zuger 10. AIDS and Privacy, by Ferdinand Schoeman 11. AIDS and the Law, by Donald H.J. Hermann Index
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Columbia University Press Covering Violence
Book SynopsisA guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible reporter. Discussing such topics as rape and the ethics of interviewing children, it gives students and journalists a better understanding of what is happening on the scene of a violent event, including where a reporter can go safely and legally, and how to obtain the useful information.Trade Review[Simpson and Cote] offer a revised doctrine: that journalists at an accident or a disaster refrain from commando tactics and even try to be helpful, that victims should get respect and scrupulous coverage...and that journalists themselves can become secondary victims. Columbia Journalism ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Journalists and Violence Sharon Schmickle: Finding Peace in Covering a War A Little Boy, a Frantic Effort Sharon Schmickle 1. Assault on an Essential Human System 2. The Journalist: At Risk for Trauma 3. 9/11: Lessons from a Sunny Morning David Handschuh: The Meaning of Being There 4. Reporting at the Scene Marley Shebala: Adding Context to the Scene What Is a Navajo Leader? Marley Shebala 5. The Interview: Assault or Catharsis? Anh Do: Crossing Cultural Borders Hope: Caring for Newborns Inspires an Inmate to Start a Family?Bribing a Guard at Her Husband?s Prison So the Couple Can Be Together Anh Do 6. Writing the Trauma Story Sonia Nazario: Writing from the Inside Enrique?s Journey: Defeated Seven Times, a Boy Again Faces ?the Beast? Sonia Nazario 7. Pictures and Sounds of Trauma Fletcher Johnson: Eyewitness to Hell 8. Reporting About Children Jane O. Hansen: Moving Readers to Protect Children Selling Atlanta?s Children Jane O. Hansen 9. Columbine: A Story That Won?t Let Go 10. Reporting on Rape Trauma Debra McKinney: Charting the Course of Recovery Malignant Memories: It?s a Long Road Back to Recovery from Incest Debra McKinney 11. Using the Searchlight with Precision and Sensitivity Scott North: A Witness for the Community Family Supports Decision on Plea Deal; Answers Wait 21 Years Scott North 12. Oklahoma City: ?Terror in the Heartland? 13. Conclusions Guidelines for Journalists Who Cover Violence The Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence A Note About Trauma Training Resources for Journalists Bibliography Index
£80.00
Columbia University Press Covering Violence A Guide to Ethical Reporting
Book SynopsisA guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible reporter. Discussing such topics as rape and the ethics of interviewing children, it gives students and journalists a better understanding of what is happening "on the scene" of a violent event, including where a reporter can go safely and legally, and how to obtain the useful information.Trade Review[Simpson and Cote] offer a revised doctrine: that journalists at an accident or a disaster refrain from commando tactics and even try to be helpful, that victims should get respect and scrupulous coverage...and that journalists themselves can become secondary victims. Columbia Journalism ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Journalists and Violence Sharon Schmickle: Finding Peace in Covering a War A Little Boy, a Frantic Effort Sharon Schmickle 1. Assault on an Essential Human System 2. The Journalist: At Risk for Trauma 3. 9/11: Lessons from a Sunny Morning David Handschuh: The Meaning of Being There 4. Reporting at the Scene Marley Shebala: Adding Context to the Scene What Is a Navajo Leader? Marley Shebala 5. The Interview: Assault or Catharsis? Anh Do: Crossing Cultural Borders Hope: Caring for Newborns Inspires an Inmate to Start a Family?Bribing a Guard at Her Husband?s Prison So the Couple Can Be Together Anh Do 6. Writing the Trauma Story Sonia Nazario: Writing from the Inside Enrique?s Journey: Defeated Seven Times, a Boy Again Faces ?the Beast? Sonia Nazario 7. Pictures and Sounds of Trauma Fletcher Johnson: Eyewitness to Hell 8. Reporting About Children Jane O. Hansen: Moving Readers to Protect Children Selling Atlanta?s Children Jane O. Hansen 9. Columbine: A Story That Won?t Let Go 10. Reporting on Rape Trauma Debra McKinney: Charting the Course of Recovery Malignant Memories: It?s a Long Road Back to Recovery from Incest Debra McKinney 11. Using the Searchlight with Precision and Sensitivity Scott North: A Witness for the Community Family Supports Decision on Plea Deal; Answers Wait 21 Years Scott North 12. Oklahoma City: ?Terror in the Heartland? 13. Conclusions Guidelines for Journalists Who Cover Violence The Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence A Note About Trauma Training Resources for Journalists Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Naturalism and Normativity
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is, in sum, much food for thought in De Caro and Macarthur's latest offering, and many of the papers will no doubt figure prominently in future discussions of the scope and limits of naturalism -- Jonathan Knowles Philosophy in Review A valuable 'contribution to a fruitful controversy' and will help shape how the relation between naturalism and normativity can be understood and developed. -- Benedict Smith Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity, by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur Part I. Conceptual and Historical Background 1.The Wider Significance of Naturalism: A Genealogical Essay, by Akeel Bilgrami 2. Naturalism and Quietism, by Richard Rorty 3. Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?, by Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini Part II. Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 4. Science and Philosophy, by Hilary Putnam 5. Why Scientific Realism May Invite Relativism, by Carol Rovane Part III. Philosophy and the Human Sciences 6. Taking the Human Sciences Seriously, by David Macarthur 7. Reasons and Causes Revisited, by Peter Menzies Part IV. Meta-ethics and Normativity 8. Metaphysics and Morals, by T. M. Scanlon 9. The Naturalist Gap in Ethics, by Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson 10. Phenomenology and the Normativity of Practical Reason, by Stephen L. White Part V. Epistemology and Normativity 11. Truth as Convenient Friction, by Huw Price 12. Exchange on "Truth as Convenient Friction", by Richard Rorty and Huw Price 13. Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism: Naturalism and Idealism, by Paul Redding Part VI. Naturalism and Human Nature 14. How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature, by John Dupre 15. Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell, by Peter Godfrey-Smith 16. Wittgenstein and Naturalism, by Marie McGinn List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Everyday Ethics and Social Change
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Presence and a Beginning 2. Love and Politics 3. Ethics, Parenting, and Childhood 4. Encountering Nature 5. Ideas and Practices: Minding the Gap 6. Toward an Immanently Utopian Political Ethic Notes Bibliography Index
£67.20
Columbia University Press Pragmatism as Transition
Book SynopsisProposes a recovery of pragmatism by way of "transitionalist" themes of temporality and historicity which flourish in the work of the early pragmatists and continue in contemporary neopragmatist thought.Trade ReviewThis may be the best general book about pragmatism in a decade... essential Choice Pragmatism as Transition is one of those rare books that sets our thinking on a new track. Exhaustively researched, the book not only cuts through facile readings of pragmatism that deny to us its transformative possibilities, but the book wonderfully teases out pragmatism's perfectionist core that enables a more capacious political and ethical life. This is a significant contribution, especially to those interested in the creative work pragmatism makes possible. Bravo! -- Melvin L. Rogers, author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy Koopman's [Pragmatism as Transition] is surely an interesting book that pushes the fringes of the pragmatist tradition a bit further. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy Clear, insightful, and ambitious... the book is exemplary in the best Emersonian sense. Metaphilosophy Well-written and valuable for students of American pragmatism. Foucault StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Pragmatism Does 1. Transitionalism, Meliorism, and Cultural Criticism 2. Transitionalism in the Pragmatist Tradition 3. Three Waves of Pragmatism 4. Knowledge as Transitioning 5. Ethics as Perfecting 6. Politics as Progressing 7. Critical Inquiry as Genealogical Pragmatism Notes Bibliography Index
£79.80
Columbia University Press Terror Religion and Liberal Thought
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTerror, Religon, and Liberal Thought is a volume with plenty to consider, a key addition to any political science collection. Midwest Book Review Miller offers readers a brilliant exercise in liberal social criticism, which stands firmly at the crossroads of moral theory, political philosophy, and pragmatic cultural criticism...it stands heads above many recent works on religion, violence, and terrorism in its thoughtful application of the tools of social criticism. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Problem of Religious Violence 2. 9/11 and Varieties of Social Criticism 3. Rights to Life and Security 4. Toleration, Equality, and the Burdens of Judgment 5. Respect and Recognition 6. Religion, Dialogue, and Human Rights 7. Liberal Social Criticism and the Ethics of Belief Appendix 1: The Right to War and Self-Defense Appendix 2: Is Attacking the Taliban and al Qaeda Justified? Notes Select Bibliography Index
£63.00
Columbia University Press Terror Religion and Liberal Thought
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTerror, Religon, and Liberal Thought is a volume with plenty to consider, a key addition to any political science collection. Midwest Book Review Miller offers readers a brilliant exercise in liberal social criticism, which stands firmly at the crossroads of moral theory, political philosophy, and pragmatic cultural criticism...it stands heads above many recent works on religion, violence, and terrorism in its thoughtful application of the tools of social criticism. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Problem of Religious Violence 2. 9/11 and Varieties of Social Criticism 3. Rights to Life and Security 4. Toleration, Equality, and the Burdens of Judgment 5. Respect and Recognition 6. Religion, Dialogue, and Human Rights 7. Liberal Social Criticism and the Ethics of Belief Appendix 1: The Right to War and Self-Defense Appendix 2: Is Attacking the Taliban and al Qaeda Justified? Notes Select Bibliography Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Animal Oppression and Human Violence
Book SynopsisBy comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames “domesecration,” a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and epidemics of infectious disease.Trade Review... A book with great cross-disciplinary appeal. Highly recommended. CHOICE An impressive and extensive historical analysis of key intersections between the exploitation of animals and the oppression of human beings. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A profoundly important book and should be widely read and discussed. AAG Review of Books One of the great virtues of Animal Oppression and Human Violence is that it holds the potential for providing the expanding but vastly interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies with a unifying theory, and is therefore a highly significant contribution to this field. -- Brian M. Lowe Society & AnimalsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Nomadic Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence 2. Domesecration and the Americas 3. Ranching and Violence in North America 4. Domesecration in the Western Plains 5. Capitalist Colonialism and Ranching Violence 6. Social Construction of the "Hamburger" Culture 7. The "Hamburger" Culture and Latin America 8. Domesecration and Impending Catastrophe 9. New Welfarism Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Responsibility of the Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is no better guide to Gianni Vattimo's philosophy than Franca D'Agostini's introduction to this book. One of Vattimo's most skilled students, D'Agostini manages to present both the logic behind weak thought and the novelty of this text, which reveals the Italian master's intuitions on crucial problems of contemporary philosophy. -- Santiago Zabala, author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After MetaphysicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Strong Reasons for Weak Thought, by Franca D'Agostini Weakness French Nihilism and Italian Nihilism Nihilism and Difference Difference and Dialectic Nihilism, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernity Verwindung Argumentation and Provenance This Book Postscript (2009) 1. Philosophy and Science After Kant, After Hegel The Flash of the Ereignis The Story of a Comma Science and "Being-not beings" The Edification of Humanity Cumulative Knowledges 2. Philosophy, History, Literature Truth, Rhetoric, History Are History and Ontology Compatible? Mythization of the World Fugues Sciences of Nature and Sciences of the Spirit? 3. Logic in Philosophy Logic and the Logics Logic and the History of Being Philosophy of Logic and Logic of Philosophy Logic and Ontology 4. To Speak the Truth Redemisti nos Domine Deus veritatis The Endless Banquet Do Vampires Exist? 5. The Vocation to Philosophy and the Responsibility of Philosophy Writing for the Newspapers Writing in the First Person The Dive Into Politics Politics Philosopher-style Losing your Soul Filling in the Blanks The Construction of Universality is Political Notes Bibliography Index
£55.80
Columbia University Press The Ethical Economy
Book SynopsisA new, more balanced system of economic production and wealth distribution that fundamentally rethinks the definition of value.Trade ReviewThis book offers a thought-provoking combination of ethics and economics to propose a new value regime that will contribute to our understanding of how business can become a force for good in sustainable development. The analysis of the ethics of collaborative work will be useful to practitioners and analysts alike. -- Guido Schmidt-Traub, executive director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations Our mainstream economic system has been focusing on a single type of financial capital no longer capable of dealing with the multiple value streams of the emerging contributive and collaborative economy. How to measure, value, and reward contributions is a key question for solving the 'crisis of value,' yet unfortunately, literature and effort are still scarce. This book looks squarely at the value crisis and offers an analysis and proposals for an 'ethical economy.' -- Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation This book presents a different way to create and distribute wealth. We all want to behave ethically today, but here it is shown how the ethical economy is not just a moral phenomenon. Arvidsson and Peitersen claim that it could and should be the basis for future societies. I personally recommend this book and hope it will not only stimulate positive discussions but also inspire our politicians to make the necessary decisions. -- Niels Jorgen Thogersen, honorary director general, European Commission No topic is more vital than how to rebuild trust in capitalism-yet none is more slippery. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen have done us all a huge favor by thinking it through so thoroughly and above all so realistically. -- Bill Emmot, former editor in chief, The Economist They are harbingers of a new paradigm Journal of Markets and MoralityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Value Crisis 2. Intangibles 3. Publics 4. Value 5. Measure 6. Ethical Economy Notes Index
£68.00
Columbia University Press The Ethical Economy
Book SynopsisA new, more balanced system of economic production and wealth distribution that fundamentally rethinks the definition of value.Trade ReviewThis book offers a thought-provoking combination of ethics and economics to propose a new value regime that will contribute to our understanding of how business can become a force for good in sustainable development. The analysis of the ethics of collaborative work will be useful to practitioners and analysts alike. -- Guido Schmidt-Traub, executive director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations Our mainstream economic system has been focusing on a single type of financial capital no longer capable of dealing with the multiple value streams of the emerging contributive and collaborative economy. How to measure, value, and reward contributions is a key question for solving the 'crisis of value,' yet unfortunately, literature and effort are still scarce. This book looks squarely at the value crisis and offers an analysis and proposals for an 'ethical economy.' -- Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation This book presents a different way to create and distribute wealth. We all want to behave ethically today, but here it is shown how the ethical economy is not just a moral phenomenon. Arvidsson and Peitersen claim that it could and should be the basis for future societies. I personally recommend this book and hope it will not only stimulate positive discussions but also inspire our politicians to make the necessary decisions. -- Niels Jorgen Thogersen, honorary director general, European Commission No topic is more vital than how to rebuild trust in capitalism-yet none is more slippery. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen have done us all a huge favor by thinking it through so thoroughly and above all so realistically. -- Bill Emmot, former editor in chief, The Economist They are harbingers of a new paradigm Journal of Markets and MoralityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Value Crisis 2. Intangibles 3. Publics 4. Value 5. Measure 6. Ethical Economy Notes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press The Quest for God and the Good
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShe enlists her readers in a close reading and careful analysis of enduring texts from several major religious and philosophical traditions as a way to gain and understanding of key issues in fundamental metaphysics and moral philosophy. Choice For those looking for an introduction to world philosophy, this is an excellent option...Lobel is to be thanked for providing us with a wonderful book that both instructs and inspires our own philosophical and spiritual journeys. -- Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier National Catholic Reporter Lobel's Quest for God and the Good is about the travel, not the destination; it is about raising the questions, not answering them once and for all. -- Yaniv Feller Journal of Jewish ThoughtTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. "God Saw That It Was Good": The Creation of the World in the Hebrew Bible 2. A Divine Craftsman Shapes All for the Good: Plato's Realm of the Forms 3. Change and the Good: Chinese Perspectives 4. The Harmony of Reason and Revelation: Augustine and Maimonides on Good and Evil 5. You Are the Absolute: Philosophies of India 6. Compassion, Wisdom, Awakening: The Way of Buddhism 7. The Good Is That to Which All Things Aim: Aristotle on God and the Good 8. The Philosopher as Teacher: Al-F?r?b? on Contemplation and Action 9. The Imitation of God: Maimonides on the Active and the Contemplative Life 10. The Dance of Human Expression: al-Ghaz?l? and Maimonides ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index
£87.40
Columbia University Press Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Radical Cosmopolitics The Ethics and Politics of
Book SynopsisReconfiguring cosmopolitanism to adapt to the moral and political challenges of globalization.Trade ReviewJames D. Ingram's argument in defense of a 'cosmopolitanism from below' is not only admirably articulated and grounded in the history of ideas and a careful assessment of contemporary debates. It is also extremely courageous intellectually: being fully aware of the past and present mystifications that affect them, he gives up neither on implementing universalistic values nor on combining the ethical and the political. His 'realism of possibility' begins with prudence and leads to endeavor. -- Etienne Balibar, author of We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship This is an impressive work of scholarship that provides an important warning about the dangers of thinking on behalf of others. Political Studies Review James D. Ingram's book is a treat... It accomplishes the rare feat of opening a dialogue between various philosophical traditions that seldom bother to respond to each other. Books and IdeasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Cosmopolitanism from the Top Down 1. Universalism in History 2. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Tensions of the Universal 3. Cosmopolitism in Politics: Realizing the Universal Part 2. Cosmopolitics from the Bottom Up 4. Rethinking Ethical Cosmopolitanism: From Universalism to Universalization 5. Rethinking Political Cosmopolitanism: From Democracy to Democratization 6. The Politics of Human Rights Conclusion Works Cited Index
£42.50
Columbia University Press Freedom and the Self Essays on the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers assess the late author's ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.Trade ReviewCahn and Eckhert have here assembled a very fine collection of essays on philosophical themes in the work of the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, whose philosophical talents are only just being recognized. Philosophers interested in the topic of fatalism should take special note, as well as those interested in Wallace's work more generally. -- Patrick Todd, University of Edinburgh In the last decade, Wallace scholarship has often confined itself to narrow corridors, covering and re-covering excursions that have become increasingly familiar. This collection opens up a new wing of the critical mansion, not only building up our understanding of Wallace's important early engagement with Taylor but also pressing his investigations toward lively new dialogues with John McFarlane, David Lewis, Archilochus, Richard Rorty, and many others. -- Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow Philosophically rigorous... This collection of essays provides insight into the philosophical career of celebrated author Wallace and serves as a good introduction to the metaphysical problems surrounding determinism, time travel, and free will. Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal Recommended. Choice An impressive anthology of seminal scholarship. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert 1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism," by William Hasker 2. Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism, by Gila Sher 3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency, by M. Oreste Fiocco 4. Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J, by Maureen Eckert 5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog, by Daniel R. Kelly 6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life, by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi List of Contributors Index
£63.00
Columbia University Press Freedom and the Self Essays on the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.Trade ReviewCahn and Eckhert have here assembled a very fine collection of essays on philosophical themes in the work of the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, whose philosophical talents are only just being recognized. Philosophers interested in the topic of fatalism should take special note, as well as those interested in Wallace's work more generally. -- Patrick Todd, University of Edinburgh In the last decade, Wallace scholarship has often confined itself to narrow corridors, covering and re-covering excursions that have become increasingly familiar. This collection opens up a new wing of the critical mansion, not only building up our understanding of Wallace's important early engagement with Taylor but also pressing his investigations toward lively new dialogues with John McFarlane, David Lewis, Archilochus, Richard Rorty, and many others. -- Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow Philosophically rigorous... This collection of essays provides insight into the philosophical career of celebrated author Wallace and serves as a good introduction to the metaphysical problems surrounding determinism, time travel, and free will. Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal Recommended. Choice An impressive anthology of seminal scholarship. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert 1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism," by William Hasker 2. Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism, by Gila Sher 3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency, by M. Oreste Fiocco 4. Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J, by Maureen Eckert 5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog, by Daniel R. Kelly 6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life, by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi List of Contributors Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press With Dogs at the Edge of Life
Book SynopsisRethinking what it means for dogs and humans to live together in the twenty-first century, taking us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that sees the world in a radically different way.Trade ReviewIn three lively and beautifully written movements, Colin Dayan offers a memorable tour de force that threads together memoir and an analysis of the deprivations of life, human and nonhuman and human with nonhuman, that so pervasively characterize our neoliberal world-historical moment. Intelligent and moving, With Dogs at the Edge of Life is an extraordinary book, a courageous and compelling intermingling of arresting cultural critique and autobiographical reflections of a life lived in the company of canines. -- David L. Clark, McMaster University Colin Dayan has again produced a probing and brilliant examination of that long 'history of extermination masked by the veneer of enlightenment.' Always writing with justice in mind, Dayan's consideration of our relationship with dogs yields a complex meditation on humanity and life's uncertain possibilities. Beautiful, 'more than just another dog story,' as only Dayan could write it. -- Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara Whether openly acknowledged or not, we are all in relationships with dogs-as companions, as lovers, as protector and protected. Some relationships are marked by fear, perhaps hatred. Most are contradictory, many escape description. In her poetic, political, autobiographical homage to life and death with dogs, Dayan helps us stay with them as we traverse treacherous edges. We are fortunate to have so gifted an interpreter and loving a guide. -- Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy and Ethics and Animals In an inimitable mode of testimony and confession, Colin Dayan argues that relations with dogs, from the southern United States to Turkey, structure violence, vulnerability, and antagonism. Extending her work on the physical exploration of unnameable states, Dayan shows how bonds with dogs uniquely condition the creation of social value. And I say that as a cat person. -- Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine Stimulating and lyrical... intellectually fierce reading for philosophically minded readers, especially dog lovers. Kirkus Reviews Erudite and imaginative as the book asks why only members of our species get to be persons... Boston Review Emotionally and intellectually challenging, the volume boasts a rich, resonant message: Not everyone sees the dog the same. American Kennel ClubTable of ContentsPreface By Way of Beginning I. Like a Dog 1. Dogs and Light 2. Back Talking Like I Did 3. They Killed My Dog II. When Law Comes to Visit 4. Dead Dogs 5. Speaking About Extinction 6. Fable for the End of a Breed III. Pariah Dogs 7. Through the Eyes of Dogs 8. If I Sense the Beauty Coda Notes Acknowledgments Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press Interspecies Ethics
Book SynopsisInterspecies Ethics explores animals’ vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.Trade ReviewInterspecies Ethics is philosophy's St. Crispin's speech for creating a new compact with our animal kin. Cynthia Willett's book is a must read for anyone and everyone committed to putting the humanity back into human living and restoring the planet. -- G.A. Bradshaw, author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers. -- Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist If you are one of a vanishing minority of people who think that we humans are the only animals with highly evolved cognitive and emotional capacities and agency, Cynthia Willett's new book will surely make you reconsider this false view of who we are and who they (other animals) really are. The border between "us" and "them" already is blurry, and as we accumulate scientific data on the fascinating and surprising lives of other animals it becomes even more blurred. Surely, humans are exceptional beings, but so too are other animals. Arguing for human exceptionalism at the expense of other animals no longer works. We all need someone we can lean on and with whom we can engage, and this book and much research show that we lose when other animals lose, and similarly, we flourish when they flourish and when they are treated with respect and dignity. Peaceful coexistence is win-win ethic for all. -- Marc Bekoff, editor of Ignoring nature no more: The case for compassionate conservation and author of Rewilding our hearts: Building pathways of compassion and coexistence Filled with insight and humor, fascinating animal studies and profound philosophical speculations on the meaning of life and our place in it, Willett's Interspecies Ethics is a beautifully crafted testament to the need for interspecies ethics by considering what she calls "communitarian cohabitation." Bringing together classical philosophy, contemporary Continental Philosophy, literature, psychology, zoology, and animal studies, Willett weaves a captivating tale of human-animal relationships that takes us well beyond human domination and towards interspecies community. This may be as important a paradigm shift in animal studies as Peter Singer's animal liberation or Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of the category "Animal." -- Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human, and Earth and World In Interspecies Ethics, Cynthia Willett gives us a book from which the reader derives pleasure as well as lessons. There is deftness in the prose, a breadth of vision in the references, and a genuine feeling to the book, a feeling we could call "humaneness" if the restrictiveness of that phrase weren't one of the targets of the book. "Interspecies ethics" is an affect-based ethics, focusing on attachments and disruptions within and across species lines. Outflanking common continental tropes, Willett's interspecies ethics is neither a "response ethics" nor a "becoming animal," but a living with animals. In the course of the book we find a movement, "from affect attunement in horizontal relationships, [which] culminates in an enlightened experience of cosmic peace." But the author won't rest without turning to "predation and death." Hence the Coda's discussion of Coetzee's Disgrace. But even then there is a turn not to the simple positive but to regeneration, the intertwining not just of human and non-human but of death and life as the tragic violence of the Coda ends with a "musical vision of mourning that regenerates the social basis of interspecies life." -- John Protevi, Louisiana State University Willett draws on an incredible range of sources and disciplines for this project, demonstrating in the process how work in animal studies requires redrawing disciplinary boundaries in significant ways. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A wonderful book that insists upon our return to the paleozoic ground of ethics and opens so many doors for further thinking about how we animals must live together as the planet evolves in strange and horrifying ways. -- Louise Westling Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living 1. Can the Animal Subaltern Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism, with Julie Willett 2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics' Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism 3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species 4. Water and Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace 5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life Coda; or, The Song of the Dog-Man: Mourning in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace Acknowledgments Notes Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngaging scholars in a debate that is situated on the cutting edge of critical theory and contemporary philosophy, Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott have succeeded beautifully in shifting perspective toward a more totalizing philosophy in conversation with ethics, religion, theology, and literature. -- Willemien Otten, University of Chicago This timely and highly stimulating set of essays examines the theological, historical, literary, dramatic, political, and theological resources of love and forgiveness in the world today. The authors find love and forgiveness to be centrally related to questions of justice and recognition, to the alert and attentive desire to see the world and each other aright. I highly recommend this bracing and thought-provoking book. -- Sarah Beckwith, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Human Alert: Concepts and Practices of Love and Forgiveness, by Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott 1. Orange Alert, by Haleh Liza Gafori 2. What Love Knows, by Jean-Luc Marion 3. Unpower: An Interview with Hugues Choplin, by Jean-Luc Marion 4. Revenge, Forgiveness, and Love, by Regina M. Schwartz 5. Love and Law: Some Thoughts on Judaism and Calvinism, by Leora Batnitzky 6. "A Mother to All": Love and the Institution of Community in Augustine, by Nils F. Schott 7. Looking Evil in the Eye/I: The Interminable Work of Forgiveness, by Orna Ophir 8. Beyond Right and Wrong: An Exploration of Justice and Forgiveness, by Albert Mason 9. Remarks on Love, by Jacques Derrida 10. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible, by Jacques Derrida 11. Thoughts on Love, by Sari Nusseibeh 12. The Passionate Utterance of Love, by Hent de Vries Suggested Reading Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Just Life
Book SynopsisReorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal dramaTrade ReviewJust Life expands the surprisingly narrow scope of the dominant frameworks in bioethics, and, more importantly, identifies new questions for the field. Rawlinson's insistence on seeing the commitments entailed by an ethics of life-especially attention to women, and to the earth-leads her to delve much deeper into the history of Western philosophy than most theorists in bioethics dare. -- Ellen K. Feder, American University Rawlinson has made here a very significant contribution that will hopefully lead to a reappraisal of where feminist-and by derivation all-bioethics should be going. -- Margrit Shildrick, Linkoping University and York University This is a powerful and erudite reading of some of the key figures in the history of political thought, whose relevance and limits remain strong even today. Mary C. Rawlinson provides a feminist critique of and alternative to prevailing models of politics and ethics by insisting on the centrality and irreducibility of differences of all kinds, but most especially sexual difference in understanding life and its social and natural connections and possibilities. -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth In this original approach to bioethics, philosophy, and feminism, Rawlinson ranges over the history of philosophy and provides fresh interpretations of Antigone and Ismene, Demeter and Persephone. She imaginatively combines theoretical discussions with concrete phenomenological discussions of eating as an ethical issue and the working lives of women. Throughout her discussions are thought-provoking, imaginative, and illuminating. -- Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research This reorientation of ethics from rights to generativity provides a valuable resource in working toward eliminating those institutions, laws, and practices that threaten the generativity of women and nature. HypatiaTable of ContentsPreface: On the Necessity of Universals in Philosophy and Bioethics Acknowledgments Introduction: Our Time-Man, Money, Media I. Critique of Rights 1. State of Nature! Property, Propriety, and the Rights of Man 2. Capitalized Bodies: Bioethics, Biopower, and the Practice of Freedom II. Refiguring Ethics 3. Antigone and Ismene: Hard Heads, Hard Hearts, and the Claim of the Right 4. Demeter and Persephone, "Unies Sous le Meme Manteau" III. Livable Futures 5. Eating at the Heart of Ethics 6. A Working Life IV. Sovereign Bodies: Politics of Wonder or the Right to Be Joyful Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Eat This Book
Book SynopsisA provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.Trade ReviewWitty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography
£47.50
Columbia University Press Eat This Book
Book SynopsisA provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.Trade ReviewWitty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography
£15.29
Columbia University Press Eating Ethically
Book SynopsisBy intertwining ancient wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with cutting-edge research, Jonathan K. Crane demonstrates that ethical eating is a means to achieve both personal health and social cohesion. Grounded in science and tradition, Eating Ethically shows us what it truly means to eat well.Trade ReviewAn accomplished ethicist and philosopher, Crane crafts a careful argument for what it means to eat well. Following a trajectory set by Michael Pollan and others, Eating Ethically is set apart by its interdisciplinarity, using biblical scholarship, nutritional science, biochemistry, and medicine to effectively buttress the idea that eating is an activity that resonates in both personal and social contexts. -- Benjamin Zeller, coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North AmericaTable of ContentsContentsPrefacePart I: Eating Unwell1. Full of Ourselves2. Deprivation and GluttonyPart II: I Eat Therefore I Am3. The Eater4. The Eaten5. EatingPart III: Eating Well6. Eating’s Genesis7. Satisfaction8. Just RightPart IV: I Eat Therefore I Am Tasteful9. Savoring10. Sacrificing11. SharingPart V: Conclusion12. Go Ahead, RefrainNotesReferencesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Beastly Morality
Book SynopsisFeaturing original essays by philosophers, ethicists, religionists, and ethologists, this collection demonstrates the ability of animals to operate morally, process ideas of good and bad, and think seriously about sociality and virtue.Trade ReviewIssues surrounding animal moral agency have become a cutting-edge area of research in animal studies. Beastly Morality is poised to make a significant contribution to the field. -- Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida Beastly Morality is a wide-ranging, scholarly, and forward-looking book that will surely cause many people to think about animals in new and more respectful ways. Congratulations to all concerned. I hope it enjoys a wide audience. -- Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, United Nations Messenger of Peace Building on copious contemporary philosophical and scientific work, Beastly Morality moves from previous, somewhat limited interspecific comparisons of moral behavior to a wider discourse within which the very notion of moral agency is reshaped in an open-ended, species-neutral manner, thus marking a further step in the development of a more impartial worldview. -- Paola Cavalieri, author of The Animal Question. Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. It does not just bring together scholars from across the academy interested in questions about the animal but also shows the synergistic benefits of intense discussions among philosophers, ethologists, and experts from diverse religious traditions. The reader is caught up in wave after wave of arguments that will challenge current thinking on the status and significance of other animals. The depth and level of inquiry is impressive while still being accessible for the nonspecialist. This book is radical in the very best sense of the word, serious scholarship combined with far reaching ethical implications. -- Celia Deane-Drummond, Inaugural Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing and Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana This worthwhile, thought-provoking collection opens an important dialogue concerning nonhuman animals and moral agency... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale, by Jonathan K. Crane Part I: The Permeability of Morality 2. De-humanizing Morality, by Kendy Hess 3. HumAnI(m)Morality, by Sean Meighoo 4. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven: Judaism's Lessons in Beastly Morality, by Mark Goldfeder Part II: Observing Animal Morality 5. Animal Empathy as Moral Building Block, by Frans B. M. de Waal 6. Humans, Other Animals, and the Biology of Morality, by Elisabetta Palagi 7. Moral Mutts: Social Play, Fairness, and Wild Justice, by Marc Bekoff 8. Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals, by Dan Demetriou Part III: Reading Animal Morality 9. Reading, Teaching Insects: Ant Society as Pedagogical Device in Rabbinic Literature, by Harrison King 10. Jakushin's Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature, by Michael Bathgate Part IV: Reconceiving Animal Morality 11. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic Perspective on Ethics in a Nonhuman Species, by John Berkman 12. Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Countertradition, by Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross Part V: Epilogue 13. Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities, by Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett List of Contributors Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press Beastly Morality
Book SynopsisFeaturing original essays by philosophers, ethicists, religionists, and ethologists, this collection demonstrates the ability of animals to operate morally, process ideas of good and bad, and think seriously about sociality and virtue.Trade ReviewIssues surrounding animal moral agency have become a cutting-edge area of research in animal studies. Beastly Morality is poised to make a significant contribution to the field. -- Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida Beastly Morality is a wide-ranging, scholarly, and forward-looking book that will surely cause many people to think about animals in new and more respectful ways. Congratulations to all concerned. I hope it enjoys a wide audience. -- Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, United Nations Messenger of Peace Building on copious contemporary philosophical and scientific work, Beastly Morality moves from previous, somewhat limited interspecific comparisons of moral behavior to a wider discourse within which the very notion of moral agency is reshaped in an open-ended, species-neutral manner, thus marking a further step in the development of a more impartial worldview. -- Paola Cavalieri, author of The Animal Question. Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. It does not just bring together scholars from across the academy interested in questions about the animal but also shows the synergistic benefits of intense discussions among philosophers, ethologists, and experts from diverse religious traditions. The reader is caught up in wave after wave of arguments that will challenge current thinking on the status and significance of other animals. The depth and level of inquiry is impressive while still being accessible for the nonspecialist. This book is radical in the very best sense of the word, serious scholarship combined with far reaching ethical implications. -- Celia Deane-Drummond, Inaugural Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing and Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana This worthwhile, thought-provoking collection opens an important dialogue concerning nonhuman animals and moral agency... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale, by Jonathan K. Crane Part I: The Permeability of Morality 2. De-humanizing Morality, by Kendy Hess 3. HumAnI(m)Morality, by Sean Meighoo 4. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven: Judaism's Lessons in Beastly Morality, by Mark Goldfeder Part II: Observing Animal Morality 5. Animal Empathy as Moral Building Block, by Frans B. M. de Waal 6. Humans, Other Animals, and the Biology of Morality, by Elisabetta Palagi 7. Moral Mutts: Social Play, Fairness, and Wild Justice, by Marc Bekoff 8. Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals, by Dan Demetriou Part III: Reading Animal Morality 9. Reading, Teaching Insects: Ant Society as Pedagogical Device in Rabbinic Literature, by Harrison King 10. Jakushin's Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature, by Michael Bathgate Part IV: Reconceiving Animal Morality 11. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic Perspective on Ethics in a Nonhuman Species, by John Berkman 12. Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Countertradition, by Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross Part V: Epilogue 13. Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities, by Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett List of Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Beyond Individualism The Challenge of Inclusive
Book SynopsisThe noted humanitarian and educator urges Western societies to engage with the core commitments of traditional communities.Trade ReviewRupp writes with great clarity and wisdom, and also with unmistakable moral conviction about issues with which he has direct personal engagement. Beyond Individualism is a book of passionate advocacy. -- David N. Hempton, dean, Harvard Divinity School Rupp brings a lifetime of thought and action to this passionate exploration of one of the biggest challenges faced by countries both large and small. The issues he raises are for all of us to ponder and act upon. -- David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom George Rupp's vision comes in the nick of time for a world crowded with competing cultures. His philosophical scholarship combines with hard experience as an international humanitarian to reveal how our differences can be our salvation on a path to a just and inclusive future. -- Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News Beyond Individualism is a wonderfully accessible and personal meditation on the human desire to be part of something greater than oneself. Rupp's own experiences at places ranging from educational institutions to post-conflict communities around the world are a wonderful backdrop for examining how we can embrace diversity within communities of conviction -- Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO, CARE USA Essential reading for leadership and citizenship in today's complex world of religious and cultural difference. As scholar, administrator, and activist, Rupp has seen the crisis of community first-hand, and offers readers a timely proposal for ethical, informed leadership in a global context. -- Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, Harvard University Rupp offers an accessible and well-reasoned contribution to debates on the role of religion and community. Publishers Weekly A powerful yet simple message emanates from this philosophical book. -- Aminul Hoque Times Higher Education In this slim volume [Rupp] offers insights about the increasingly interconnected yet individualistic world, and concludes that greater inclusion can be pragmatic and does not require homogeneity, a principle that can be embraced by both the religious and secularists. -- Susan Froetschel YaleGlobalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Passionate Conviction and Inclusive Community Part 1. Education as a Resource 2. The Challenges of American Provincialism 3. Religion and the Academy-A Lover's Quarrel 4. Universities in the Search for Strategic Responses to Global Challenges 5. What Is the Good Life? 6. More Words for Students Part 2. Action for Inclusion 7. Local Conflicts as a Global Challenge 8. People on the Move 9. Enhancing Local Capacity Globally 10. Religious Communities as a Resource for Conflict Resolution 11. Religion and Ecology 12. Why Community? Conclusion Index
£24.00
Columbia University Press Friendship Reconsidered
Book SynopsisDigeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendship’s many forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship, political and legal institutions, and international relations.Trade ReviewThis engaging work impressively brings together discussions about friendship in political philosophy, ethics, and international relations to create a rich and stimulating conversation about the nature, role, and value of friendship in political life. -- Catherine Lu, McGill University Friendship Reconsidered is a long-awaited, comprehensive analysis of the political theory on friendship. Academically sophisticated, it is at the same time highly accessible to a lay reader. P. E. Digeser builds on Michael Oakeshott's concept of social practice to suggest that we look at friendship, not as easily definable but as a 'family of practices.' She argues her view coherently and systematically, subjecting her argument to all the objections that could be raised and carefully refuting them in a clear yet un-dogmatic way. This is an original and important addition to the political theory on friendship. -- Heather Devere, coeditor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies Can friendship be a high ideal of liberalism? How should it fit into politics? And how can it function between states? This carefully argued and elegant book deftly guides us through these questions with great subtlety, reminding us that practices of friendship vary, even as they share a family resemblance. Digeser's compelling ideal of friendship binds people while fostering their individuality and opens up attractive possibilities for politics within and between states. -- Farid Abdel-Nour, San Diego State University This work is a valuable addition to political science collections in most college and university libraries... Highly recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1 1. Friendship as a Family of Practices 2. Motivations, Actions, and the Value of Friendship 3. Self-Interest, Duty, and Friendship 4. Friendship and Individuality Part 2 5. Civic Friendship 6. Friendship During Dark Times 7. Institutions for and Against Friendship Part 3 8. Friendship and Friend in an International Context 9. International Friendships of Character 10. The Politics of International Friendships Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Political Responsibility
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhat is a distinctly political ethic, one responsive to the unique properties of action and power in setting the terms of collective life? What is a radical democratic ethic, one contoured to substantive equality and power sharing? In this original study, Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo probes every dimension of these timely questions. By turns exquisitely subtle and ardently polemical, Political Responsibility restores political theory's promise of worldly illumination. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Remarkably erudite and conceptually lucid, Political Responsibility scrutinizes the complex relationship that, from Machiavelli to Adorno, binds ethics with politics. Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo unveils the upshots of the 'ethical turn' that has shaped the humanities in the last decades: a depoliticized fetishism of human rights combined with the actual accommodation to the individualistic ethos of neoliberalism. His plea for a political responsibility rooted on commonality and oriented towards collective action is as convincing as it is refreshing. -- Enzo Traverso, Cornell University A sweeping work of integrative intellectual history, Political Responsibility is a major book in every sense-in the topic it takes on, in its range of reference, and above all in its ambition. It is certain to be a reference point for those debating the future of the field. -- James Ingram, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Historicizing the Ethical Turn 2. Responsibility in History 3. Autonomy, Ethics, Intrasubjectivity 4. Ethical Reductions 5. Adorno and the Dialectic of Responsibility 6. Political Ethic, Violence, and Defeat Notes Index
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